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Belated happy birthdays to Fordim and Thenamir! It'll be a while until we can celebrate the next eleventy-first here.

Also, belated happy birthdays to Bilbo and Frodo! I admit I completely forgot about Baggins day this year. Does drinking some fine beer and listening to a band of worthy gaffers singing merry songs in the language that inspired Quenya sound like a valid excuse?

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Also, belated happy birthdays to Bilbo and Frodo! I admit I completely forgot about Baggins day this year. Does drinking some fine beer and listening to a band of worthy gaffers singing merry songs in the language that inspired Quenya sound like a valid excuse?

Hey, once upon a time Betberry proved bananas canonical. *dramatic music* Nothing is impossible.

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Hey, once upon a time Betberry proved bananas canonical. *dramatic music* Nothing is impossible.

A good friend of mine once pointed out that Turin had a knack for treading on every banana skin in sight. Therefore bananas must be canonical. (QED). Although I'd love to read about Bethberry's proof too!

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A good friend of mine once pointed out that Turin had a knack for treading on every banana skin in sight. Therefore bananas must be canonical. (QED). Although I'd love to read about Bethberry's proof too!

I like that explanation quite a lot, actually. Bethberry's was more to-the-letter.

The backstory is as follows. Rune was taking part in a Paper Telephone game that Hookbill was modding, and didn't have time to do something that night (sleep? I forget) because he spent it drawing his picture, so when he sent it in he jokingly asked to beat Hook with a banana for him. Not too long after, there was a mini-moot, and Agan brought a banana and beat Hook with it, as she later reported here: http://www.forum.barrowdowns.com/sho...postcount=1119. Bethberry's response: http://www.forum.barrowdowns.com/sho...postcount=1121.

It's a long story.

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Seconded! Happy birthday, Lal, and a glorious party!

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I like that explanation quite a lot, actually. Bethberry's was more to-the-letter.

The backstory is as follows. Rune was taking part in a Paper Telephone game that Hookbill was modding, and didn't have time to do something that night (sleep? I forget) because he spent it drawing his picture, so when he sent it in he jokingly asked to beat Hook with a banana for him. Not too long after, there was a mini-moot, and Agan brought a banana and beat Hook with it, as she later reported here: http://www.forum.barrowdowns.com/sho...postcount=1119. Bethberry's response: http://www.forum.barrowdowns.com/sho...postcount=1121.

It's a long story.

It's even a bit longer than that. The, um, dare I call it a meme? of hitting Hookbill with a banana dates back to Finlandmoot 2011, when Mac and Rikae's daughter Annika Wereduckling found great delight in doing so, IIRC egged on by at least one parent. See here.

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It's even a bit longer than that. The, um, dare I call it a meme? of hitting Hookbill with a banana dates back to Finlandmoot 2011, when Mac and Rikae's daughter Annika Wereduckling found great delight in doing so, IIRC egged on by at least one parent. See here.

Oh hahahaha!!! I didn't even remember that! (Though I do recall the little Wereduckling learning a nice new word in Finnish that she apparently thought was a synonym for Hook's name). Oh the lore of the Downs!

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Behold, it is the Cake of Rassilon! Or the Cake of Omega? Anyway, happy birthday, Hookbill! (So tricky, not putting your birth date on facebook, but you can't escape the Downs' birthday tracker and Galadriel55, its keeper!)

Also belated best wishes to Mark 12-30!

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Behold, it is the Cake of Rassilon! Or the Cake of Omega? Anyway, happy birthday, Hookbill! (So tricky, not putting your birth date on facebook, but you can't escape the Downs' birthday tracker and Galadriel55, its keeper!)

Also belated best wishes to Mark 12-30!

Thank you!!! Grace and peace!

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You've crushed the resistance before it's begunSilenced the gifteds who dared to confrontLaying your paws upon all that you ruleSome ordo follows your lead like a muleYou've got all the suspects, you've got all the votesYou've got all the incriminating quotesAs deadline approaches, so does your feastAnd nobody sees you're a slobbering beastUntil every last ordo surrenders but one:You better watch out, 'cause Inzil's got a gun!

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You've crushed the resistance before it's begunSilenced the gifteds who dared to confrontLaying your paws upon all that you ruleSome ordo follows your lead like a muleYou've got all the suspects, you've got all the votesYou've got all the incriminating quotesAs deadline approaches, so does your feastAnd nobody sees you're a slobbering beastUntil every last ordo surrenders but one:You better watch out, 'cause Inzil's got a gun!

You've crushed the resistance before it's begunSilenced the gifteds who dared to confrontLaying your paws upon all that you ruleSome ordo follows your lead like a muleYou've got all the suspects, you've got all the votesYou've got all the incriminating quotesAs deadline approaches, so does your feastAnd nobody sees you're a slobbering beastUntil every last ordo surrenders but one:You better watch out, 'cause Inzil's got a gun!

Oh, that's great!

Happy birthday morm!

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